Print Position And Barcode Printing - Citizen CBM-1000 User Manual

2.3.2 Print Position and Barcode Printing

Roll paper width 80 mm provided:
Paper width 80 mm applies to printing area 72 mm (576 dots), and both left and
right margins each ca. 4 mm.
Roll paper width 58 mm provided:
Paper width 58 mm applies to printing area 54 mm (432 dots), and both left and
right margins each ca. 2 mm.
field 1
1
Note:Among the adjacent heating elements side by side, for example, 1-192th dot
field becomes possibly misaligned with 193-384th dot one and/or 385-576th
dot one as shown in fig. 3 (Print Density Level = 2). Make sure not to spread
over the printing area of the ladder Bar code onto the different dots fields,
otherwise Bar code Printing become misaligned to affect OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) performance.
Paper width 80 mm
0.125 mm
Print area 72 (63) mm
4 (8.5) mm
Figure1 Printing Area 1
Paper width 58 mm
0.125 mm
Print area 54 (45) mm
2 (2) mm
Figure2 Printing Area 2
192
193
field 2
Figure3 misaligned printing
— 6 —
4 (8.5) mm
2 (11) mm
field 3
385
384
The values in ( )
are for when the
42 column format
is used.
The values in ( )
are for when the
30 column format
is used.
576
Slight shift
possible.